Spivey Hall

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Spivey Hall, on the campus of Clayton State University, is a 400-seat, acoustically superior performing arts venue that has presented the best in jazz and classical music to metro Atlanta since 1991. Its celebrated concert series receives regular national and international attention as one of America's finest, and the hall's acoustics and design are routinely lauded by patrons, pundits and performers. Thanks to frequent appearances on American Public Media's "Performance Today," as heard on public radio stations across the country, the hall has earned a national reputation while also reaching an international audience through exposure in such publications as BBC Music magazine and International Arts Manager. The hall also routinely receives superb accolades from the noted artists it annually presents.

A premiere ensemble of leading American vocal soloists directed by Atlanta native Matthew Guard, the Skylark Vocal Ensemble is "a gem" (ArtsATL.com) and returns to Spivey Hall with a program of a cappella Christmas music spanning the centuries. A Spivey Hall Debut.

Nobody put more Americans "In the Mood" for great swing music than hit-maker Glenn Miller, leader of the most famous big band of all time. The Miller sound lives on through performances by the world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra with music director, vocal soloist, and Atlanta native Nick Hilscher – "an exceptionally talented performer" (RythmeBeat.com). Take a trip down memory lane with "Moonlight Serenade," "American Patrol," "Chattanooga Choo Choo," and other timeless tunes from the heyda...

With "myriad details of shading and contrast, and beautifully calibrated phrasing," the period instrument string quartet, London Haydn Quartet wins praise for "revelatory" and "exquisitely rendered" interpretations of the Classical repertoire (The New York Times). Add the "wonderfully fluent and nimble" playing of Eric Hoeprich (The Boston Globe) and Mozart's revered Clarinet Quintet glows with marvelous new colors and textures. "Mr. Hoeprich's rounded, mellow tone meshed alluringly with the ...

One of the great concert organists of our age with more than 1,400 concerts given worldwide, Stephen Tharp "plays as if the music were in his life-blood: musical, spacious, accurate, persuasive, convincing" (Organists' Review). "The consummate creative artist" (Michael Barone, Pipedreams), Tharp is "authoritative, impassioned, supremely musical and technically impeccable" (The American Organist). "Brilliant. Perhaps no more need be said. Mr. Tharp nearly had his audience on its feet following...

The Danish String Quartet "plays with an urgency that can feel dangerous, and with a unity of intention that makes familiar material stand out in bold relief, as if it were brand new territory… This is a group that makes you listen" (San Jose Mercury News). "They could be grounded in their tone or mystical. They allowed time to stand still, and they could assume the pose of excitingly aggressive rockers. They did it all" (Los Angeles Times). "Do not lose track of this group: Even by today's...

An "astonishing virtuoso with tremendous suggestive power and imagination" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Joyce Yang is blessed with "poetic and sensitive pianism" (The Washington Post) and a "wondrous sense of color" (San Francisco Classical Voice). "In a world of dime-store piano virtuosi, all with impeccable technique, she seems like something out of Tiffany's special collection" (TheaterJones). "Beautifully atmospheric playing" (Gramophone).

Charlie Chaplin has been making audiences laugh for over a hundred years now, and you'll find out why in this one-of-a-kind program with Dan Kamin, who trained Robert Downey Jr. for his Oscar-nominated performance in Chaplin and created Johnny Depp's comedy moves for Benny and Joon. In Funny Bones, Kamin takes audiences on a magical excursion into Chaplin's enchanted comic world through film clips, live performance, and the screening of a newly restored print of The Pawnshop, Chaplin's 1916 c...

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